Heinrich von Kleist quotes
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“We must make a journey around the world to see if a back door has perhaps been left open.”
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“In Santiago, the capital of the kingdom of Chile, at the moment of the great earthquake of 1647 in which many thousands lost their lives, a young Spaniard called Jeronimo Rugera was standing beside one of the pillars in the prison to which he had been committed on a criminal charge, and he was about to hang himself.”
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“I write only because I cannot stop.”
-- Heinrich von KleistSource : Heinrich Von Kleist (1982). “An Abyss Deep Enough: The Life of Heinrich Von Kleist with a Selection of Essays and Anecdotes”, Dutton Adult
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“To live in a place where I am not, and in a time that is either past or not yet come.”
-- Heinrich von KleistSource : Heinrich Von Kleist (1982). “An Abyss Deep Enough: The Life of Heinrich Von Kleist with a Selection of Essays and Anecdotes”, Dutton Adult
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“The getting out of doors is the greatest part of the journey.”
Source : Abraham Cowley, Thomas Sprat (1710). “The Works of Mr. Abraham Cowley ...: Consisting of Those which Were Formerly Printed, and Those which He Design'd for the Press, Publish'd Out of the Author's Original Copies ; with The Cutter of Coleman-street”, p.179
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Source : "Knight's Treasury of Illustrations". Book by Walter B. Knight, p. 149, 1956.
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Source : A.A. Gill (2007). “AA Gill is Away”, p.46, Simon and Schuster
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